2.1 & 2.2
What three English documents had the greatest impact on the creation of the Constitution?
Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and English Bill of Rights.
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
The central government was weak/other acceptable answers.
Why did smaller states favor the New Jersey Plan over the Virginia Plan?
Because it called for equal representation, it gave them the same voting power.
Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and oversaw the Gadsden Purchase?
Franklin Pierce
A two-house legislature
bicameral
Britain imposed high (this five-letter word) on certain goods, pushing colonists to want independence.
taxes
True/False: The Congress under the Articles of Confederation had the power to tax the states and was a strong central government.
False
What major point involving population did the Virginia and New Jersey plans disagree on?
How the states should be represented in Congress.
Who is the only president to have ever been a bachelor?
James Buchanan
Special Notes Key Term: goods sold to other countries
exports
Why did Britain interfere with colonial government in the mid-1700s?
To raise money to pay its debts.
What did the Philadelphia meeting in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation turn into?
Constitutional Convention
What did the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise promise not to do?
To not tax state exports or interfere with the slave trade until 1808.
Which leader is known as the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
Special Notes Key Term: goods bought from foreign countries
imports
What did the First Continental Congress send to King George III?
A Declaration of Rights.
Why did Shays' Rebellion occur?
To protest state taxes and lost land/along those lines.
What was the main reason that Federalists supported ratification of the Constitution?
The need for a stronger central government/the Articles were weak.
Which president supposedly died eating cherries and milk?
Zachary Taylor
The idea that the government is restricted in its power.
limited government
What was the first unofficial national government of the United States?
Second Continental Congress
How were the states represented in Congress under the Articles of Confederation?
One vote per state.
What was an important argument against the proposed Constitution?
It did not include a Bill of Rights
Which president was shot in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.?
Abraham Lincoln
People who supported the ratification of the Constitution.
Federalists